Example sentences of "[conj] hold [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 2 | Now they wear little except shorts and light rubber-soled pumps and hold on to vertical cliff walls like flies with a combination of sticky powder on their fingers , the faith of an Indian fakir , and tons of hardware in the shape of bolts , runners and slings hammered into the rocks . |
| 3 | They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats . |
| 4 | All around them people sat on their boxes and held on to precious bundles , patiently waiting for whatever might happen next . |
| 5 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |